Shine Limited

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Shine Limited or Shine Entertainment as it is otherwise known is a successful UK based media production company with offices in London and Manchester. Shine Limited was founded in March, 2001 by Elisabeth Murdoch daughter of News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch. The company is 80 percent owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, 15 percent by Lord Alli, and 5 percent by BSkyB (a Pay-TV platform in the U.K owned by News Corporation). BSkyB signed a deal guaranteeing to buy an agreed amount of Shine programming for two years.[1] Shine Limited is also a supplier of franchise television to broadcasters across the globe including the BBC, Channel 4, HBO and the RTL Group.

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The Unofficial World Records of Sex (UWROS). Brief Synopsis: An X-Rated comedy aired on Sky One that explores record breaking feats of a biological nature. Examples of events include how many tiddlywinks can be stuffed inside a mans foreskin and how far a woman can shoot darts out of her private parts.

100 Greatest Sexy Moments. Brief Synopsis: A 3 hour Documentary countdown aired on Channel Four that explores the "turn ons" of the average Briton. Viewers vote between televisions hottest ever scenes ranging from two girls kissing - Cruel Intentions. A cartoon rabbit in a tight evening dress - Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or an explicit rimming scene between a man and a boy - Queer as Folk. 100 Greatest Sexy Moments promises to explore the most perverted, sexy and erotic moments of all time.

Hex. Brief Synopsis: A UK drama with a supernatural theme. A young girl named Cassie is impregnated with a demon love child. The birth of this unholy child has released the nephilim, a group of fallen angels whose goal is to seek revenge on God by killing human beings. Cassie needs to find and destroy her own child to restore order. She has assistance in her quest through fellow college student Ella who has mystical powers and a personal grudge against the nephilim. For further information on this TV series see Hex (TV series).

Sugar Rush. Brief Synopsis: Based on the novel by Julie Burchill, Sugar Rush is late-night drama series aired on Channel 4. Set in Brighton, Sugar Rush follows the passions, secrets and the misadventures of adolescence as experienced through the eyes of a 15-year-old schoolgirl (Kim). Kim has a crush on a fellow classmate (Sugar) but knows that coming out as a lesbian is a one-way trip to social Siberia. Kim's life is further complicated by her freak-brother, her controlling father and her mother who acts as if she is the one who is 15 years old. For further information on this TV series see Sugar Rush (TV series).

Charles & Camilla: Madly In Love. Brief Synopsis: A documentary aired on Sky One tracing the path of Charles and Camilla's relationship - from their first meeting to their marriage on April 9, 2005. Their furtive trysts under the roofs Britains grandest stately homes and some of their more publicised tabloid frenzies like the Camilla-gate tapes. Charles & Camilla delves into the past of the Prince of Wales and his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles; talks to the frantic royal souvenir manufacturers; a psychic gives their account of the reaction of Alice Keppel, the Queen Mother and Princess Diana; and uncovers predictions for the couple's future from an astrologer and a tarot Card reader. Constitutional historians and lawyers examine whether the whole thing is a romantic union, or an ill-thought constitutional screw-up.

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